Purpose of the job

This is a foundational hire — the first dedicated design systems voice on our team. We're looking for someone senior enough to set the standard, self-driven enough to establish it without waiting for direction, and generous enough to bring everyone else up with them.

You'll do two things at once: deliver brilliant hands-on product design, and be the team's go-to expert on design systems. Embedded in a cross-functional squad with Product and Tech, you'll own end-to-end experience quality for your area — while also owning our design system, the components, tokens, and patterns that keep everything consistent. It's a lead-by-doing role, not a people-management one.

Responsibilities

Own the design quality of your product area end to end — spot problems early, propose solutions, and drive them home with your PM.
Design complete customer journeys: research, flows, prototypes, and production-ready specs in Figma.
Run your own research and usability testing, and bring in quantitative data to validate decisions.
Own our design system — its components, tokens, and documentation — establishing the patterns, principles, and ways of working the team will build on, and unblocking designers on the hard systems problems.
Turn one-off solutions into reusable, shared practice rather than letting the same thing get rebuilt ten times.
Mentor other product designers, lifting their craft and their systematic thinking.
Represent design systems in cross-functional conversations, and keep work aligned with our content and accessibility standards.

Experience

Several years as a Product/UX Designer in digital product teams, with deep, demonstrable design systems expertise — enough to be the most senior systems voice in a team and set its direction. Financial services or fintech a strong plus.
Experience in agile, cross-functional squads with Product and Engineering.
A portfolio showing strong end-to-end product design and real systems depth — components, tokens, patterns — plus a track record of raising craft and driving shared practice.
Bachelor's degree.
Fluency in English, written and spoken.

Knowledge required

Deep design systems expertise: tokens, components, patterns, theming, and contribution models.
End-to-end product design across web and native mobile — discovery to delivery.
WCAG 2.1 AA accessibility, especially as it applies to component design.
How product metrics (conversion, task completion, error rates) connect to design decisions.
How AI tools can augment design work — and when human judgement has to override them.
Solid grounding in research methods and content design principles.